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A Salute to Telesforo Trinidad
One of the few enduring U.S. Naval ship naming conventions is to honor heroic Sailors and officers (as well as the occasional Marine) by bestowing their names on destroyers. With the Burke-class...
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SOCOM Goes Rattler for PDW
The U.S. Special Operations Command signaled the end of a five-year search for a personal defense weapon platform last week, opting to run Sig Sauer’s MCX Rattler. The Commercial PDW contract, by its...
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Just DesRon 20 Showing Off
A stack of brand-new Farragut-class destroyers of Destroyer Squadron Twenty (DesRon20) executing a turn on a bright summer day. Leading the column is USS Farragut (DD-348), followed by USS Dewey...
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Remember Today
It isn’t about the 1,000 sales emails you get this weekend. “So Many Graves” Arlington National Cemetery, 1995, by Army Artist Sieger Hartgers When tomorrow starts without me And I’m not here to...
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Fly Navy
When I was an 11-year-old growing up in Pascagoula, with T-2 Buckeyes and T-28 Trojans a common sight overhead whenever we went to the beach in Gulf Shores and the “Grey Ghost” that was USS Lexington...
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Welcome USS Columbia, err, PCU District of Columbia I mean
General Dynamics Electric Boat conducted a keel-laying ceremony for the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, USS Columbia (SSBN 826) at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, over the weekend....
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Warship Wednesday, June 8, 2022: The Ship Behind the Ships Behind the Torpedoes
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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The Indispensable Kate
80 Years Ago Today: Japanese Type 97 Shipboard Attack Aircraft (Nakajima B5N “Kate” torpedo bomber) wrecked on Indispensable Reef in the Soloman Islands, at the time it was inspected by a Patrol...
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Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean…
Last month, off the coast of Washington (still within sight of shore), a ballistic missile submarine swapped out its crew at sea, highlighting the option to do so in remote areas if needed to keep the...
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Intrepid Corsair Deal
Via Platinum Fighters, if you have the scratch, they have a model 1944 Chance Vought F4U-1D Corsair up for a cool $4~ milly. A historical aircraft, BuNo. 82640, this Corsair is the only flying F4U-1D...
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Iconic Underway Shots
The Navy’s PAO network has really done a good job of putting out great images in the past week. Check these out, taken in three different parts of the world across just three days. From the ancient...
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Goula Sub Sighting (of Sorts)
Growing up in Pascagoula as a kid, although it wasn’t a traditional “submarine town” such as Pearl, New London, or Bremerton, we had a lot of submarine tie-ins. After all, the USS Drum (SS-228) museum...
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China’s 100,000 Ton CATOBAR Carrier hits the water
Delayed twice due to technical issues and COVID shutdowns (and a dash of corruption), the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China’s first Type 003 carrier was christened Fujian (CV 18) at the...
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Welcome, USS John Basilone
Over the weekend, Bath Iron Works in Maine hosted the christening of the USS John Basilone (DDG-122), a late-batch Burke-class destroyer, with Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Troy Black delivering the...
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Spanish Guppies
The great shot below is from Cartagena, Spain, late 1970s showing assorted Balao-class Spanish Navy “Guppies” in the foreground to include SPS Narcíso Monturiol (S-35), ex-USS Jallao (SS-368); and SPS...
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Fear the Mighty Hippocampus!
Official caption: “Hippocampus, U.S. Motor Boat, 1913, photographed prior to World War I with a rowing boat and several model sailing boats in the foreground.” The original print is in National...
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Warship Wednesday, June 22, 2022: The Emperor’s Wrath
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Throwback: Jester & Viper
Jester: “That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date – right up to the part where you got killed.” With the latest Top Gun sequel, I felt these striking images would be well-timed. Official...
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Onto the Ramp
“Onto the Ramp.” Artwork by Joseph Hirsch. Lot 3124-3: Paintings of Naval Aviation during World War II: Abbott Collection. #47. “Caught by the tail like some dripping sea monster, a Navy PBY patrol...
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USN Flattop Updates
The Navy has seen several important carrier and carrier-adjacent benchmarks this week that I thought were noteworthy enough to mention “in case you missed it.” Lightning Carrier No.4 The fourth...
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